FTC’s 2013-2014 Season!

NSO Show: The Last Five Years

Book, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown

Directed by Abby Case

Produced by Chris Burcheri

The Last Five Years is a contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up… or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. An intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view.

Fall Show: The Lion in Winter

Play by James Goldman

Directed by Alex Polyak

Produced by Maddy Levasseur and Gray Stanton

As the sun sets on his reign, King Henry Plantagenet, “the greatest power in a thousand years,” calls his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and their three sons to the palace for the negotiation of a treaty and a marriage contract. Locked behind the palace doors, a deadly game of alliances and betrayals unfolds as each of the players, fueled by anger and old wounds, moves to control who will sit on throne when Henry is gone.

Winter Show: Cabaret

Book by Joe Masteroff

Music by John Kander

Lyrics by Fred Ebb

Directed by Kate Herzlin

Produced by Kelly-Ann Corrigan

Legendary landmark musical Cabaret turns Weimar Berlin of 1931 into a dark and sexually charged haven of decadence where its extraordinary and morally ambiguous inhabitants are determined to keep up appearances as the real world prepares for the nightmarish chaos of war.

Spring Show: Rabbit Hole

Play by David Lindsay-Abaire

Directed by Meg MacInnes

Produced by Dana Floberg

Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. A Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day